Monday, January 14, 2008

GLORY BE in our world


Hello boys and girls, can anyone tell me where the Glory Be is on Harley? Well if you look closely at the photos of Harley this week you will be able to know where the Glory Beeeee is.... Yes, Harley has been one busy little bee.


To begin with, last week he helped moderate a conference call with our Deputy Executive Director for Development on the Rock and Roll High School. As you will remember (Harley and Steven Van Zandt hang tight with each other) MENC is involved with Little Steven's Rock and Roll High School project which is also supported by Scholastic. President Lynn Brinckmeyer has appointed a Rock and Roll curriculum committee who are now beginning to work to oversee the materials.

Harley was also involved in getting out the monthly newsletter to the MENC Leadership. Of interest in the newsletter is additional information on the November 2007 national poll on the correlation of music education experience with lifetime educational attainment and financial success. This time Harris conducted a survey of 150 senior executives in Fortune 1000 companies. The results basically support the earlier data, which strongly imply that music education contributes to individuals' success. Further data will be posted to the MENC web site.

Be sure to preregister for the upcoming national in-service conference in Milwaukee, WI by February 15th for the early bird special. Let's see is it the early bird that gets the worm or the bee..... Hmmmmmm. Harley will have to consider that one. (# 2 Hmmmm, Harley digresses and wonders if it won't be the Green Bay Packers vs New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in February?) ALSO, volunteers are needed to preside at sessions. Yes, we need YOU! You are us! # 2 Also -- be sure to vote when you receive your ballot. Some of you will be voting for division presidents-elect (those of you in the Western, North Central, and Southern divisions), everyone will be voting for a national MENC president-elect, and everyone will be voting to amend the MENC Bylaws. We will need your ballots back in the MENC office on March 21. Stay in touch. If you need anything, you can reach us by mail, e-mail, or phone. We are here for you! ; )

Have you found Harley's Be? It certainly isn't in his bonnet! Talking about a bee in his bonnet -- shame on some of those Dallas Cowboy football players headed to Mexico with a well known blond singer on the arm of Tony during the "bye" week before their playoff game. Guess it was a bye bye kind of week - they lost to New York - no kidding, Sherlock! Even Harley knows they should have been concentrating on the game - of football. Oh well, have a Harley kind of glory bee kind of week y'all.